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  1. Re:Smart move on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: 2

    Only if the android phone has a metal case and routes incoming power into the case. Many phones would just give off a puff of smoke if fed AC, rather than frying the user. I mostly blame the maker of the 3rd party charger, but AC into your 30-pin or lightning connecter shouldn't electrify the phone's exterior. I thought this was a hoax at first because I could not believe power would be routed to the phone's exterior.

  2. Re:Smart move on After a User Dies, Apple Warns Against Counterfeit Chargers · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Nexus 7 requires that you use a proprietary cable as well if you want to move data onto or off of the device. It looks like a standard Micro-USB cable, but isn't.
    It drove me nuts troubleshooting my connection, until I realized I had to use the cable that came with the device. At least the cable for my iPod with lightning on one end and USB on the other is obviously a proprietary cable.

  3. Re:The NSA needs Xbox One sales on Microsoft Will Allow Indie Self-publishing, Debugging On Retail Xbox One · · Score: 1

    If you signed your post, your friends might recognize that it's you, and get you some help. As it is, I can only urge you to get some professional help regarding your extreme paranoia.

  4. I'd never get any code written if my PC rebooted every time the internet dropped for a moment. I see no reason we should accept that from an XBox.

  5. Re:Representive Nugent? on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 1

    An evil wizard, obviously, but not a monstrously evil one, since it's not a Microsoft logo.

  6. Re:Representive Nugent? on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Because he says insane things like that the president can suck his machine gun, or that if Obama gets reelected he'll be in prison or dead. How is it you didn't notice that he's gone crazy? He fits right in with the deranged wingnuts who ruined the Republican party.

  7. Re:Yeah, and they'd go broke on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    1> All they have to do is discontinue RT, and then no one can reasonably whine about newer ones being more than the liquidation price, because newer ones will not exist. 2> Nope, research "dumping." This is not that. 3> Maybe, but I have to think that Microsoft controls their own licensing fees. They might be locked into an internal accounting system, and be too big and non-responsive to be able to make exceptions though.

  8. Re:Not so radical. on A Radical Plan For Saving Microsoft's Surface RT · · Score: 1

    To be willing to do that, they'd have to give up on pushing people toward Metro. I don't know of they're ready to accept the failure of their new UI yet.

  9. Good for subby on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up Non-Obnoxious Outdoor Lighting? · · Score: 1

    Trying to not annoy his neighbor with his lighting. There have been a lot of cases where a problem neighbor refuses to take down a light, and has to have it done for them repeatedly in the night. America has a serious problem with in-duh-viduals who have no respect for anyone but themselves.

  10. Re: THAT explains it! on Imitation In Dogs Matches Humans and Apes · · Score: 1

    I think that most of us who understand humans are animals do understand that other animals can be as smart in dealing with their environments as we are in dealing with ours. A random beaver can build a better dam than a random human can.

  11. Re:Jenny McCarthy on Fifteen Years After Autism Panic, a Plague of Measles Erupts · · Score: 2

    Since it's the UK, I think this one is on Wakefield, not the cute airhead that causes disease in American children.

    On a side-note, it looks like the bimbo's kid isn't even autistic, but she still wants to be "a voice for autism."
    http://hollywoodlife.com/2010/02/26/jenny-mccarthy-says-her-son-evan-never-had-autism/

    I think she's going for a seductive look in the article's photo, but I think she just looks mentally handicapped.

  12. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    If it helped you realize that the supernatural is imaginary, and that you need to work your way back to reality, perhaps with professional help, then yes, you have a meaningful take-away. If encountering reality-based people didn't help you discard religion, you really didn't learn anything. Being an educated crazy person isn't impressive.

  13. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    All you have to do is present your sky-fairy for study, and if it turns out to actually have supernatural powers, people capable of thinking will believe you. If you cannot do this, people are right to believe you're a liar, whether you're so far gone that you believe your lies or not. Even conjuring a demon would help you convince people. Of course you can't, because the supernatural is fantasy.

  14. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 1

    Of course. Unlike politicians and actors, religionists, and supernaturalists in general don't realize that they're not speaking the truth. They really believe their booga-booga nonsense.

  15. Re:Like in the Bible! on Ohio Zoo Attempts To Mate Female Rhino With Her Brother For Species Survival · · Score: 2

    Your arrogance is astounding. You're so slow on the uptake that you still have a childish belief in the supernatural, and you pretend to be superior to those who have grown out of their superstitious beliefs. Spinning additional stories in support of fairy-tales, to keep yourself from realizing that you've been deeply delusional, is insanity.

  16. Gag order on When the NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company · · Score: 1

    I understand the need for gag orders so the person being investigated doesn't hear that they're being monitored, but they need to have a reasonable expiration date at which time all may be disclosed.

  17. I don't care about Steam's DRM blocking resale since they have really good sales. If people are too poor to afford a new game that they can't resell, they can wait for the game to go on sale. For example Borderlands 2 is $10.19, Bioshock Infinite is down to 29.99, and Tomb Raider is $12.49 right now. This is better than used game prices were at used game stores. Steam is DRM done right.

  18. Re:How can that be? on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There really is something wrong with Windows RT. It's a Windows 8 look-alike, called Windows, but it can't actually run Windows apps. We understand that x86 Windows apps can't work on ARM, but Joe Consumer doesn't. They should have called it something other than Windows, but instead they muddled their product-line by trying to ride on the Windows brand. If they called their ARM tablet OS "Surface" instead of Windows, they could have avoided a lot of confusion.

  19. Re:The thing is on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    If you left out all the derp, the actual point in the middle of your post would reach more people, and be rated better.

  20. Re:Bury on Microsoft Is Sitting On Six Million Unsold Surface Tablets · · Score: 1

    It seems to be the RT junk that they're stuck with. The only thing wrong with Surface Pro is that it added even more confusion to the product line because it looks like the RT devices that run a Windows look-alike that can't run Windows programs. I think Pro would have sold better if RT never existed, and I plan to get a later generation one if MS continues the product-line, because the current Pro is underpowered for my needs.

  21. Re:Just a little on Is the World's Largest Virus a Genetic Time Capsule? · · Score: 1

    It's almost certain that at least simple life exists on other planets, but it's bonkers to leap from finding genes you don't recognize on a planet full of life, to thinking they came from Mars. I understand people who are sitting around smoking pot and speculating like that, but scientists are supposed to apply sober reason to their conjectures.

  22. Re:Sorry internet on MIT Attempts To Block Release of Documents In Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You're blaming the victim, and you're too much of a coward to put your name on your derp.

  23. Re:He broke into a server room to download it on MIT Attempts To Block Release of Documents In Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Let's not blame the victim.

  24. Re: why cloud? on How One Drunk Driver Sent My Company To the Cloud · · Score: 2

    So is keeping your public-facing servers off-site. You can get extremely good uptime and a ton of scalability by hosting your servers on two or more geographically separated "clouds."

  25. Re:Who is this Steve Lexus? on When Metadata Analytics Goes Awry · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your loss. Jane Honda is really cute.